Gnus won't start: error on gnus-group-change-level

Gnus won't start: error on gnus-group-change-level

[Chris Shenton]

I'm using Gnus from a recent CVS.  My Emacs hung and I had to "kill" it.  Now when I start it and invoke
M-x gnus it talks to my IMAP server then throws an error.  This also 
happens if I do M-x gnus-no-server, as below:

  Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
    gnus-group-change-level(nil nil 9 "INBOX.saved.ace5" t)
    eval-buffer(#<buffer .newsrc-dribble>)
    gnus-dribble-eval-file()
    gnus-setup-news(nil 2 t)
    byte-code("...")
    gnus-1(2 t nil)
    gnus(2 t nil)
    gnus-no-server-1(nil nil)
    gnus-no-server(nil)
  * call-interactively(gnus-no-server)
    execute-extended-command(nil)
    call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

Seconds ago I built from the latest CVS and encounter the same thing,
so it appears it's something in my config that's trashed rather than
Gnus code.

I'm rather stuck at this point since I can't get past it to read my
mail.  Any suggestions on how to recover? 



Thanks.

Re: [Solved] Gnus won't start: error on gnus-group-change-level

[Chris Shenton]

I wrote to early, I was able to solve the problem.  In the
.newsrc-dribble file, I found several lines that looked like:

  gnus-group-change-level(nil nil 9 "INBOX.saved.ace5" t)

The first two arguments were nil.  I just removed these lines and now
can startup gnus just fine. 

Re: [Solved] Gnus won't start: error on gnus-group-change-level

[Adrian Aichner]

Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> writes:

> I wrote to early, I was able to solve the problem.  In the
> .newsrc-dribble file, I found several lines that looked like:
>
>   gnus-group-change-level(nil nil 9 "INBOX.saved.ace5" t)
>
> The first two arguments were nil.  I just removed these lines and now
> can startup gnus just fine. 

I've seen this problem recently too, using
gnus-version "Gnus v5.10.7"
and emacs-version "21.5  (beta23) \"daikon\" (+CVS-20051031) XEmacs Lucid"

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